Religion & Law

OH: Man protesting Islamic prayer interrupts Athens roundabout dedication

Posted on September 27, 2010
The Post: "A dedication ceremony for the Richland Avenue Improvements Project Saturday was interrupted by a man protesting the ceremony's opening prayer read from the Koran. Athens City Sheriff Officers escorted the man from the premises."

Christian Scientists push for health insurance that covers spiritual care

Posted on September 27, 2010
Denver Post: "And the Church of Christ, Scientist is lobbying the federal government to give its members an option to buy health insurance that covers this kind of spiritual care . . . 'If the government is going to take the extraordinary step of requiring Americans to buy health insurance, they should be responsive to the kinds of health care Americans are relying on,' said Gary Jones, federal manager of the Christian Science Committee on Publication...

Judge puts out a call for former clerk

Posted on September 27, 2010
The Blog of LegalTimes: "Federal judges tend to avoid getting publicly involved in U.S. Senate confirmation battles, but a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit became an exception this week with a nomination involving a former clerk of his...

ACLU warns school district about Todd Becker Foundation presentation

Posted on September 27, 2010
KETV: "The Lyons-Decatur school district has booked the Todd Becker Foundation for a presentation within the school. The ACLU said the foundation is a proselytizing religious organization."

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UN partnering with faith groups

Posted on September 27, 2010
CNN: "The United Nations is partnering with faith based organizations and their vast network of donors, development groups, and grass roots organizers to bring aid to developing countries around the world. You could say they are putting their money where their mouth is...

Turkey warns Germany of turning integration into assimilation

Posted on September 24, 2010
World Bulletin: "Turkish State Minister Faruk Celik met with German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere in Ankara on Friday . . . Celik said that they welcomed the initiatives to establish Islamic theology departments in universities in Germany."

NC: Construction firm settles religious discrimination case

Posted on September 24, 2010
WRAL: "The EEOC had charged that T.A. Loving Co. discriminated against three men by firing them for refusing to work on Saturdays, which is their Sabbath as members of the Seventh-Day Adventist faith."

Bulgarian protesters demand compulsory religious classes

Posted on September 24, 2010
AFP: "Over 5,000 Bulgarians demonstrated Friday in Sofia to demand that religious instruction in this majority Orthodox country become compulsory in schools, police said Friday."

Fort Bragg will go ahead with Christian rally

Posted on September 24, 2010
Daily Comet: "A Christian rally open to the public will go ahead at Fort Bragg on Saturday, leaders at the post say, despite objections from national groups who say it's a violation of the separation between church and state." Related: Army must cancel evangelistic event at Fort Bragg, says Americans United

CA: Muslims reject SFPD surveillance program

Posted on September 24, 2010
The Bay Citizen: "The Commission held hearings at which some 100 members of the local community testified. Many said that Muslims are under a constant state of surveillance in the Bay Area. The hearings were prompted in part by Police Chief George Gascon's plan to resume an intelligence-gathering operation that was halted under pressure from civil liberties groups in 1993...

Waynesboro, VA company accused of rasta-hair discrimination by EEOC

Posted on September 24, 2010
WTKR (AP): "The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against Lawrence Transportation Systems on behalf of Christopher Woodson, who grows his hair as a Rastafarian religious expression."

Senior Egyptian bishop in hot water over Koran statement

Posted on September 24, 2010
AFP: "A senior Coptic bishop has caused a furore in Egypt by suggesting that some verses in the Koran, the Muslim holy book, were inserted at a date after it was first set down, press reports said on Friday."

?Germany will become Islamic state, says Chancellor Merkel?

Posted on September 24, 2010
Paul Williams, writing at Family Security Matters: "Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Germans have failed to grasp how Muslim immigration has transformed their country and will have to come to terms with more mosques than churches throughout the countryside, according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily...

NAACP leaders reach out to advocates of homosexuality

Posted on September 24, 2010
Washington Post: "Even as the NAACP engages in a tense debate over same-sex marriage, the group's leaders have begun reaching out more forcefully to gay rights groups. The outreach has been steered by former chairman Julian Bond and the group's president, Benjamin Jealous...

White House assures skeptics on DADT: ?we?re going to get that done this year?

Posted on September 24, 2010
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina assured students at his alma mater on Wednesday that the gay ban will be struck down soon. 'We're going to get that done this year,

DADT debate is about sexual conduct not identity

Posted on September 24, 2010
"This misperception [about how DADT is enforced] is largely because this debate has focused on sexual identity ? a complex and often nebulous concept ? when the military is largely looking to govern sexual conduct."

Heritage Foundation: Nanny state goes to college

Posted on September 24, 2010
The Heritage Foundation / The Foundry: "The Department of Education (DOE) has proposed new rules for accrediting colleges and universities, including expanding the power of states to authorize higher education institutions, definitions of what constitutes a 'credit hour,' and de facto price controls through measures to ensure graduates? 'gainful employment...

Doug Napier on Family Policy Matters with Bill Brooks: Proposition 8 Litigation

Posted on September 24, 2010
ADF attorney Doug Napier appeared on Family Policy Matters with Bill Brooks to discuss the Proposition 8 litigation. | MP3 audio 14:17 mins

Jim Campbell with Janet Parshall: How does same sex ?marriage? affect me?

Posted on September 24, 2010
ADF attorney Jim Campbell appeared on Moody Radio, "In the Market" with Janet Parshall to discuss the California marriage litigation. | MP3 audio 14:54 mins

Brent Bozell: Polymorphous propaganda

Posted on September 24, 2010
Brent Bozell writing at Townhall: "The sexual revolution always seems to have another frontier . . . HBO started the normalization of polygamy with its drama 'Big Love,' but TLC is openly pushing for the walls of judgment to come falling down. Its slogan for the show is 'Rethink love...

Pat Buchanan: Equality or freedom?

Posted on September 24, 2010
Pat Buchanan writing at Townhall: "If you would understand why America has lost the dynamism she had in the 1950s and 1960s, consider the new Paycheck Fairness Act passed by the House 256 to 162. The need for such a law, writes Valerie Jarrett, the ranking woman in Barack Obama's White House, is that 'working women are still paid only 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man' ...

Who stands for standing?

Posted on September 24, 2010
Linda Greenhouse writing at The New York Times / Opinionator: "So consider this column a standing alert: recent developments of potentially great consequence are pushing the question of standing to the forefront in a way that promises to make it one of the hot legal topics of the coming months or even years...

?Speech hostile to gays constitutionally unprotected, speech hostile to whites constitutionally protected??

Posted on September 24, 2010
Eugene Volokh writing at The Volokh Conspiracy: "James E. Graves, Jr., a Mississippi Supreme Court Justice, has been nominated to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit . . . In 2004, Justice Graves took the view that a judge was not constitutionally protected against being disciplined for saying ...

China steps up efforts to reverse ?Brain Drain?

Posted on September 24, 2010
Associated Press: "Hoping to reverse a 'brain drain,' the government and companies are scouring the globe for talent. Job fairs like the one Qiu attended - at the posh Prince Hotel in central Tokyo - are one of their tools, with dozens being organized around the world...

Trend: Christians preach to Muslims, get arrested

Posted on September 24, 2010
Islamist Watch: "Does the First Amendment protect Christians who bring their message to Muslims at public events or in front of mosques? This is a good question, given the trend of missionaries being placed under arrest while proselytizing to followers of Islam ? right here in the United States ...

DeMint hits ?good ol? boys Senate club? for protecting Murkowski

Posted on September 24, 2010
The Hill: "Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said he spoke loudly Wednesday during a closed door meeting of Senate Republicans in favor of booting Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) from her spot as the ranking Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee...

Thomas F. Farr: Killing the extremist idea that threatens America

Posted on September 24, 2010
Thomas F. Farr writing at Public Discourse: "Wahhabi teachings have been present in American mosques for decades (they were exported here by our Saudi friends and allies). And yet, American Muslims have seemed relatively immune, certainly in comparison to their counterparts in Western Europe, who have been far more easily radicalized ...

Ask the Author: Before Roe v. Wade

Posted on September 24, 2010
Erin Miller writing at SCOTUSblog: "Journalist Linda Greenhouse and law professor Reva Siegel recently teamed up to publish Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court?s Ruling. The book is a compilation of original materials from the political dialogue about abortion leading up to the famous 1973 ruling...

Christianity Today Political Advocacy Tracker

Posted on September 24, 2010
Christianity Today: "Alliance Defense Fund president [Alan Sears] lamented New York City's designation of September 15 as American Civil Liberties Union Day. '[The ACLU] is leading America back to many of the totalitarian tyrannies we founded this nation to escape,' he said...

Pastors to challenge IRS on ?Pulpit Freedom Sunday?

Posted on September 24, 2010
CBN News: "At least 100 church pastors will defy the Internal Revenue Service by endorsing political candidates for the Nov. 2 elections from their pulpits this weekend during Pulpit Freedom Sunday . . . 'The IRS should not be used as a political tool to advance the agenda of radical groups bent on silencing the voice of the church and inhibiting religious freedom,' [Erik Stanley], a senior counsel for the ADF told WorldNetDaily...

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